Yeah, yeah, wonderful world, beautiful people You and your girl, things could be pretty But underneath this there is a secret That nobody can repeat Take a look at the world and the state that it's in today I am sure you'll agree we all could make it a better way With our love put together everybody learn to love each other Instead of fussing and fighting, cheating, back-biting, scandalising and hating Baby, we could have a wonderful world, beautiful people You and your girl, things could be pretty But underneath this there is a secret That nobody can repeat, yeah now Man and woman, girl and boy, let us try to give a helping hand This I know and I'm sure that the love we all could understand This is our world, can't you see Everybody wants to live and be free Instead of fussing and fighting, cheating, back-biting, scandalising and hating Yeah, we could have a wonderful world, beautiful people You and your girl, things could be pretty But underneath this there is a secret That nobody can repeat, mm, yeah, yeah Talking 'bout a wonderful world, beautiful people . . .